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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

SA to analyze pressing issues

By Tammy Sholer | January 27, 1989

Several issues concerning the Student Association that have emerged during the first two weeks of the semester will be discussed at the first SA meeting Sunday. SA Treasurer Diana Turowski said the redistricting of senate distrits will be one subject...

Redistricting unconstitutional

By Holly Schubert | January 27, 1989

In what some members of the Student Accosiation are calling a landmark decision, the SA Sumpreme Court found the 1986 senate voting redistricting plan unconstitutional Thursday night. The decision, a response to a petition by Andrew Shankman, states that...

Huskies crush Valpo, 103-65

By Bob Regan | January 27, 1989

It's seems like every time the NIU women's basketball team takes the court these days there is some new accomplishment. Thursday night's 103-65 trouncing of Valparaiso University at Chick Evans Field House was no different. Five minutes into the first...

Matmen hope fans, athletic dept. pay attention

By Eric Burt | January 27, 1989

Huskie wrestling coach Ed Vatch is hoping that a pair of victories this weekend will open the eyes of the athletic administration. "It's been kind of hard to get attention," said Vatch, who has stated his desire for more scholarships. "Hopefully, we'll...

Retired music professor dies

January 27, 1989

Frank Wendland Beezhold, a retired NIU music professor, died Wednesday at Kishwaukee Community Hospital in DeKalb. Beezhold was 72 years old. Oscar Haugland, Beezhold's colleague and friend, described him as "a wonderful, warm human being," saying that...

AWOL Arrington starts to grow up

By Chris Sigley | January 27, 1989

Most college basketball players have four years plus to mature, both on and off the court. While Stacy Arrington still has two more years and 10 games to perfect his pull-up jump shot, the 6-2 NIU guard has commpacted the off-court maturity process into...

Alumni Assoc. will tour Euprose, Orient

By Nissin Behar | January 27, 1989

The Northern Illinois University Alumni Association is sponsoring tours to the Orient and Europe for DeKalb residents and NIU students this spring, and the association has dubbed the European trip "Monuments, Masterpieces and Old Master." Ross Guest,...

Newman Center provides variety

By Joel Guggenheim | January 27, 1989

For students who are looking for more in church than sitting through sermons, DeKalb's Newman Center might be a fresh change. The Newman Center, 512 Normal Road,is a Cahtolic parish which opens all its programs and services to anyone wishing to attend....

Education assessment seminars to be given

By Lisa Meisner | January 27, 1989

Two education assessment seminars will be presented at NIU Feb. 6 and 7 by William Lyons, professor of political science at the Uniersity of Tennessee in Knoxville. The first session, geared for an audience of students as well as adminstrators, will begin...

Minority salary increase slated

By Joel Guggenheim | January 26, 1989

NIU President John LaTourette recently slated $100,000 to increase the salaries of minority faculty members in compliance with NIU's affirmative action plan, beginning with fiscal year 1989. The funds are intended to pay any academic department two-thirds...

Revelers’ behavior inexcusable

January 26, 1989

"The only thing I can say is thank God it's finally over." That's what Vivian Rancourt, mother of Susan Rancourt, said about the execution of killer Ted Bundy. And rightly so. Susan was one of Bundy's victims. But it's one thing for a mourning mother...

No leads to Church’s locale

January 26, 1989

There are no concrete leads into the investigation of an NIU student who allegedly murdered his former girlfriend's parents and wounded her and her younger brother last August. The suspect, Richard Church, 19, Woodstock, Ill., has been a fugitive since...

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